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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
5 reviews
crybabybea's review against another edition
3.75
I'm not a super big fan of raunchy/dirty comedy, but I found Ali Wong's approach kind of endearing and wholesome. She makes herself the butt of jokes before anyone else can, and it makes her come across as very open-minded and shame-free. I think her comedic approach really worked well for a memoir written as a letter to her daughters. As terrifying as it would be to read about your mom's sexcapades and fecal matter, there were a lot of truly heartfelt moments that broke up the overwhelming amount of poop jokes (seriously, there's lots of poop). But the whole thing was just filled with a tone of passion and genuine love and I found it moving despite the over-the-top comedy.
She briefly touched on some more political topics, like how she defines her identity as an Asian-American woman in a male-dominated career field, but it wasn't the main focus and I enjoyed that each absolutely unhinged story circled back around to a word of advice for her girls.
I found her narration in the audiobook to be super entertaining too and made it easy to keep listening.
Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Excrement, Miscarriage, and Vomit
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Cancer and Alcohol
laurenlee2158's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Alcohol, Sexual content, Cursing, Drug use, Pregnancy, and Vomit
unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Racism
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Racism
Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Drug use
katielaine_w's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Miscarriage
Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, Vomit, Racial slurs, Racism, and Pregnancy